Squealing Alternator

[Greg Galinsky]

More likely to be a belt issue.  Try changing the belt tension a bit.  When
it wants to start charging there is more load placed on the drive belt

Greg
90 90Q
90 80Q
90 80
88 90Q
88 80Q
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark L. Chang" <mchang at ee.washington.edu>
To: "quattro list" <quattro at audifans.com>; "20v list" <audi20v at rennlist.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:05 AM
Subject: Squealing Alternator


> Once again I have a squeeeealing alternator. Low RPMS, especially after
> the car is nice and warm. e.g. when I come to stop sign, voltage dips to
> 12v instead of 14.1v and kind of hovers there. Sometimes, it'll correct
> itself and jump back up, but more so, when I rev up upon launch, it just
> squeeeeeals until about 2k rpm.
>
> Now here's the dumb question: is this the belt, or is it the bearings?
> I'll have it all apart this weekend for a tbelt/h2o pump, but wanna know
> if I need to get new bearings to do that too.
>
> Mark
> 1991 90q20v
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